Words of a doubt

He walked out of the forest and headed towards the town nearby.

While on the way he took some herbs that he would find along the way since in the past years he had gained quite a lot of knowledge on what certain herbs do.

After a few hours of walking, he had reached the town.

It looked desolate with buildings broken and some bodies laid around the place either skeletons or recent deaths. They were most likely people that went to this town in hopes of seeing other people or food but were either killed by the Edens or captured as a slave by other people.

He entered the town and looked around. He saw a somewhat okay pharmacy and walked towards it and entered.

Inside he saw that it was mostly empty and even the doors in the back that should have been the storage room was broken down.

He looked around the pharmacy and decided that it would be a good place to stay and started barricading the windows and blocking every door except the main entrance.

After securing the pharmacy he left and checked the town to see if there were any Edens in the town and after walking around for 40 minutes he decided it was safe and searched other stores.

After about 2 hours of rummaging around in the buildings such as the Hardware store and some houses. He found several things such as an actual Jug that he could use and a bigger and better condition backpack than what he used before.

There was also some other things such as a flashlight and some clothes he could use. With all that he got he decided to return to his temporary home which was the pharmacy.

He laid some clothes on the floor of the storage room and slept.

He woke up in the middle of the night, but he didn't know why. But soon he got his answer as he smelled smoke.

He shot up and looked around and saw that there was no fire in his building.

He walked out and looked around and saw that there was a fire burning in the forest but far from where he used to live.

His thoughts were a mess on whether or not to help whoever was in trouble or just continue sleeping.

...

He ran as fast as he could towards the fire. After running non stop for several minutes, he came up on a small village in the forest that seemed to be very well hidden as everything that was used in building was from the forest itself, and most of the buildings were covered in shrubbery or leaves to cover it.

He could see three Edens walking around the camp bloodied and one of them even still held a body in it's mouth that was missing parts of it's body.

He held back the urge to vomit as even in the war, he had not seen anything that brutal before. He walked around outside of the village while trying to stay hidden from the Edens.

"Ahhh!"

He heard a shout and saw that all of the Edens ran towards the cry. He walked trying to see who was the one that screamed and saw the woman from before that he saw in the forest.

The woman was running as fast as she could and trying to lose them by running in and out of buildings and over barrels. But it was useless as the Edens would just crush whatever was in front of them and continue running.

He decided to leave her and return to town as he wasn't sure if he could win against three Edens.

"Help me!"

He turned around and saw that the woman was running towards him!

'Fuck' he thought he was hidden well enough.

He ran into the forest and climbed up a tree. He saw the woman running below past the tree and the Edens following soon after.

One of the Edens hit the tree as it was chasing the woman which made the tree shake and he wasn't fast enough to grab on to anything and fell on the ground hard.

When he opened his eyes he saw the face of an Eden staring at him.

He jumped up and back and pulled out his Eden Dagger. He looked around and saw that it was the only one here. The others must have ignored him or did not see him except for the last one.

This made it a bit easier now that he didn't need to fight three Edens at once.

He got into a position as he stared back at the Eden.

The Eden just walked towards him as if he was walking towards a simple ant. They must have become arrogant since no one could hurt them.

But i can! He ran towards holding his dagger.

The Eden looked at him and he could see that he found this funny when he looked at its eyes.

He plunged the dagger into its side as hard as he can and pulled back gaining some more distance. The Eden roared in pain and looked at its wound and looked back at him. Now he could see anger in its eyes. Good.

The Eden charged at him to which he stood his ground. When the Eden was near him he jumped to the side and rolled. While the Eden was trying to stop its momentum, he ran up behind it and brought the dagger to its leg and stabbed it deep.

The Eden roared once more and kicked him with its hind legs. He soared through the air and thankfully the hard tree softened the impact.

He fell on the ground and spit out some blood. He looked at the Eden and saw that it was almost smirking at him.

He grit his teeth and stood back up. With him injured and the Eden also injured from his first and second attack, he could say that he was in worst condition as he was weaker than the Eden.

They both stood for several second with both parties not moving a single inch.

Then they both burst into action. He ran and slid under the Eden and stabbed his dagger into its belly.

When he got out on the other side of the Eden, he turned around to see the face of the Eden mouth near his face. He knew that he couldn't duck in time so he threw himself back letting his body hit the floor.

Why the fuck wouldn't it die already! He took his dagger and ran towards it again in an attempt to finish it off but he was swiped away by its claws which threw him again.

He landed and grunted and tried to stand up but was immediately rammed against a tree. The Eden stared at him and opened his mouth.

He closed his eyes and waited for his Death. But it never came.

When he opened his eyes he saw the body of the Eden dead on the floor.

He looked at it and thought 'Finally'.

He was going to skin it when he remembered the girl. He wasn't sure if he could kill three but with two? He might be able to do it.

So he ran through the woods looking for any signs of the girl which wasn't all that hard, you just had to look for the path of broken trees and cracked earth.

He came to an area that had more broken down trees with some fire spreading around and saw the woman standing with her hands pointed towards the two Edens. At least that explained the fires at the village.

Picking up a random stone from the ground, he threw it to one of the Edens.

"Hey Asshole! Come on!"

Both Edens looked at him with confusion on their faces.

"Hey lady! When i say Go, you start spraying magic at one of them as much as you can!"

The girl nodded slightly, but that was a good enough confirmation. Everything in that forest was still for a few seconds as the tension in the air grew as they stared at one another.

"Go!"

He ran towards the Eden on the left while the woman seemed to panic and kept shooting fire at the other Eden. He also noticed that the woman was just using fire which was not strengthened in any way, the heat that it held at most would be at the heat of a lighter.

He pointed his hand out towards the one in front of him and shot out a [Fire Javelin] towards it.

This Eden was quicker than the rest as it ran to the side and charged towards him.

He jumped back and brought up a wall using [Stone Wall].

The Eden just broke the wall down, but it didn't expect him to be waiting for it after it broke the wall down. He jumped on it's back and stabbed repeatedly.

The Eden thrashed around in an attempt to throw him off.

He jumped off and pointed his hand towards it and shot a [Flame Lance], the Eden turned and just saw a flaming lance flying through the air and pierce its head.

Looking around he saw the woman was much farther than she originally was. He ran for a short while and held his hand out towards the Eden which was being suppressed by the flames of the woman.

He had wanted to try this before but now he could. He focused and thought of multiple [Wind Blades] appearing.

When he opened his eyes, he saw several invisible blades of wind floating around him.

"Get away!"

He released all of them towards the Eden.

The Eden looked at where the shouting came from and saw a man holding his hand out. Soon it felt pain assault its entire body as cuts started appearing on his body.

It opened its eyes and saw the man walking towards him. It was thinking on where the other Edens were and how they could leave him. But then it saw the armour it was wearing, it was then that it understood what happened.

They used to be the Hunters...But now, they were the Hunted.

After that it felt nothing but heat.

He raised his knife in victory.

Then he saw his vision going sideways.